Jozo Tomasevich
Jozo Tomasevich | |
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Josip Tomašević | |
Born | 1908 |
Died | |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | University of BaselHarvard University |
Known for | War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941–1945 |
Spouse(s) | Neda Brelić (m. 1937-1994; his death); 3 children |
Awards | Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies (1989) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | EconomicsHistory |
Institutions | San Francisco State UniversityStanford UniversityColumbia UniversityFederal Reserve BankBoard of Economic WarfareUnited Nations Relief and Rehabilitation AdministrationNational Bank of Yugoslavia |
Josip "Jozo" Tomasevich (1908 – October 15, 1994;
In 1938, he moved to the US as the recipient of a two-year
Tomasevich then embarked on an extensive research and writing project on Yugoslavia in World War II – War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941–1945 – which was planned to include three volumes. Supported by grants and fellowships, he published The Chetniks in 1975, which explored the development and fate of the
His final book was the second volume of the series – War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration – which was published posthumously in 2001 after editing by his daughter Neda. It focused on
Early life, education, career and family
Josip "Jozo" Tomašević was born in 1908 in the village of Košarni Do on the Pelješac peninsula in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, part of Austria-Hungary. Košarni Do is near the village of Donja Banda and is today part of the Orebić municipality within the Dubrovnik-Neretva County of Croatia.[1] His father, known to the family as Nado, travelled to California in the 1870s. He returned to the village in 1894, married the daughter of his first cousin and worked as a farmer. The couple had four sons.[2]
Jozo completed his
Before the outbreak of World War II – and now known by the anglicised Tomasevich – he moved to California. He was on the scholarly staff of the Food Research Institute within Stanford University. During the war, he worked with the Board of Economic Warfare and the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration in Washington, D.C. After the war, he initially worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco.[1] His preference was for a position combining teaching and research, so in 1948, he joined the San Francisco State College (later San Francisco State University). He taught there for twenty-five years until he retired in 1973 – except in 1954 when he taught at Columbia University.[1] After his retirement, he was appointed professor emeritus of economics at San Francisco State University.[5] According to his obituary in the Slavic Review written by the historian Alexander Vucinich, Tomasevich "gave his lectures rich and pertinent content, precise organization and warm delivery".[1]
In 1937, Tomasevich married Neda Brelić, a high school teacher. They were happily married for 57 years and had three children – Anthony, Neda Ann, and Lasta. In 1976, Tomasevich contributed an essay to a book in which he conducted a sociological and historical analysis of his extended family reaching back to the early
Scholarship
According to Vucinich, from when Tomasevich was 25 until his death at 86, he engaged himself in a succession of research projects, some of which were very extensive. He describes Tomasevich as having "a temperament that encourages inner discipline... he gave undivided attention to each of the research projects until full completion had been achieved".[1] Vucinich divides Tomasevich's scholarly work into three distinct phases: his work regarding the finances of Yugoslavia during the Great Depression; two studies in the 1940s and 1950s regarding international marine resources and the economic problems of the peasants of Yugoslavia; and the final phase focusing on the historical events in Yugoslavia during World War II.[1]
Between 1934 and 1938, Tomasevich published three books. The first appeared in
After he arrived in the US, Tomasevich undertook two significant projects. The first was International Agreements on Preservation of Marine Resources, published by Stanford University Press in 1943. Vucinich described this work as "a highly competent inquiry into international relations in the Pacific basin centered on an issue of vital economic importance".[1] The second book, Peasants, Politics, and Economic Change in Yugoslavia published in 1955, was described by Vucinich as "a study of monumental scope [which] has been widely recognized as the most comprehensive and accomplished study in the field". Vucinich observed that the book was an "impressive testimony to Tomasevich's ability both to penetrate the depths of messages carried by documentary material and to be scrupulously careful in drawing conclusions". He concluded that Tomasevich had been "eminently successful in placing the economic problems of the Yugoslav peasantry within a larger social, political and historical framework".[1] The political scientist Zachary T. Irwin described the book as "magisterial".[10] Irwin T. Sanders of the Department of Sociology at the University of Kentucky reviewed the book in 1956 and stated that it was "the best book available for anyone wishing to understand the socio-economic pre-Communist background of Yugoslavia", contained realistic evaluations of the peasant political parties, and concluded that "there is little question about the soundness of his economic analysis or his description of the participation of the peasant in national life".[11]
In 1957, Tomasevich received a San Francisco State University grant for Slavic and Eastern European studies.
In 1974, Tomasevich received a fellowship for his postdoctoral research into volume two of the trilogy from the American Council of Learned Societies, and this was followed in 1976 by a fellowship supporting his work on the planned third volume on the Yugoslav Partisans.[12] In 1989, Tomasevich received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.[17]
The second volume of his planned trilogy – War and Revolution in Yugoslavia 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration – concentrated on
According to Vucinich, Tomasevich was "a master of scholarly skills, a person of bountiful erudition, wit and human dignity, and a leading expert on the economic and social history of the former Yugoslavia.[1] In 2004, Tomasevich's papers were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library and Archives at Stanford University.[20]
Selected bibliography
As sole author
- Die Staatsschulden Jugoslaviens [The National Debt of Yugoslavia] (in German). Zagreb, Yugoslavia: Drukerei "Merkantile". 1934. OCLC 10626641.
- Financijska politika Jugoslavije, 1929–1934 [Fiscal Policy of Yugoslavia, 1929–1934] (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb, Yugoslavia: Vlastita naklada. 1935. OCLC 18666473.
- Novac i kredit [Money and Credit] (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb, Yugoslavia: Vlastito izdanje. 1938. OCLC 254535363.
- International Agreements on Conservation of Marine Resources: With Special Reference to the North Pacific. Stanford: Food Research Institute (printed by Stanford University Press). 1943. OCLC 6153373.
- Peasants, Politics, and Economic Change in Yugoslavia. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1955. OCLC 450385266.
- War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: The Chetniks. Vol. 1. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1975. ISBN 978-0-8047-0857-9.
- War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration. Vol. 2. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-8047-3615-2.
As co-author or contributor
- Tomasevich, Jozo; Vucinich, Wayne S. (1969). Contemporary Yugoslavia: Twenty Years of Socialist Experiment. Berkeley: University of California Press.
- Tomasevich, Jozo (1976). "The Tomašević extended family on the Peninsula of Pelješac". In Byrnes, Robert F. (ed.). Communal Families in the Balkans: The Zadruga Essays by Philip E. Mosely and Essays in His Honor. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-00569-6.
Articles
- "Agriculture in Eastern Europe". Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 317: 44–52. May 1958. S2CID 154592391.
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Vucinich 1995.
- ^ Tomasevich 1976, p. 197.
- ^ a b Baletić 1997.
- ^ Tomasevich 1976, p. 198.
- ^ Stanford University 1982.
- ^ Prosecutor versus Vojislav Šešelj 2008.
- ^ Palo Alto Online 1994.
- ^ Palo Alto Online 2002.
- ^ Lamer 1940.
- ^ Irwin 2000.
- ^ Sanders 1956.
- ^ a b ACLS 2011.
- ^ a b c Auty 1976.
- ^ a b Goldstein 2002.
- ^ Dragnich 1976.
- ^ Campbell 1976.
- ^ AAASS 1989.
- ^ Kadezabek 2004.
- ^ a b c Schmider 2003.
- ^ OAC 2004.
References
Books and journals
- Auty, Phyllis (1976). "War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: The Chetniks". JSTOR 2615914.
- Baletić, Zvonimir (1997). "How Keynes Came to Croatia". Ekonomska Misao I Praksa/Economic Thought and Practice. 6 (1). ISSN 1330-1039.
- Campbell, John C. (1976). "War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: The Chetniks by Jozo Tomasevich; The Chetnik Movement & the Yugoslav Resistance by Matteo J. Milazzo; and The Embattled Mountain by F. W. D. Deakin". The American Historical Review. 81 (4): 897–899. JSTOR 1864917.
- ISSN 0008-4107.
- ISSN 0002-8762.
- Irwin, Zachary T. (2000). "Peasants and Communists: Politics and Ideology in the Yugoslav Countryside 1941-1953". Nationalities Papers. 28 (3): 588–590. S2CID 158067450.
- Kadezabek, Joseph (2004). "War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941–1945: Occupation and Collaboration (Book)". ISSN 0008-4107.
- Lamer, Mirko (1940). "Novac i kredit (Geld und Kredit)" [Money and Credit]. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (in German). 51: 33–34. JSTOR 40433261. Retrieved November 24, 2023.
- Sanders, Irwin T. (1956). "Peasants, Politics, and Economic Change in Yugoslavia". ISSN 0036-0112.
- Schmider, Klaus (2003). "War and Revolution in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945: Occupation and Collaboration". S2CID 162189986.
- Tomasevich, Jozo (1976). "The Tomašević extended family on the Peninsula of Pelješac". In Byrnes, Robert F. (ed.). Communal Families in the Balkans: The Zadruga Essays by Philip E. Mosely and Essays in His Honor. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. pp. 187–200. ISBN 978-0-268-00569-6.
- JSTOR 2501227.
Websites and court transcripts
- "CREES Newsletter" (PDF). Center for Russian and East European Studies, Stanford University. Spring 1982. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 3, 2011. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
- "Deaths: Jozo Tomasevich". Palo Alto Weekly. Oct 21, 1994.
- "Deaths: Neda B. Tomasevich". Palo Alto Weekly. August 28, 2002.
- "Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award". Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Archived from the original on February 24, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2015.
- International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (29 January 2008). Prosecutor versus Vojislav Šešelj (Court case). The Hague. p. 2901.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Jozo Tomasevich F'76, F'74, G'57". American Council of Learned Societies. July 27, 2011. Archived from the original on March 16, 2021. Retrieved October 15, 2012.
- "Overview of Jozo Tomasevich papers". Online Archives of California. 2004.